As I did the morning watering of the flowers and vegetable garden, I realized I haven't taken a picture of any of them (I like to take lots of pictures!).
Our garden this year is in the same plot as last few years. It's a raised bed garden that's approximately 15 feet by 4 feet. This year, the primary vegetable (actually a fruit) is tomatoes. We used starter plants this year instead of seed.
God willing and lots of sunshine, we'll have cherry tomatoes, Roma's, and beef steak. There are also yellow zucchini, green zucchini, slicing cucumbers, sun flowers, and in the herb section lemon thyme, apple peppermint, pineapple peppermint, and regular peppermint. The lemon thyme is a hold over from last year. I recommend planting it for the wonderful scent year-round.
Matt wanted lemon cucumbers again this year, but we already filled up the garden plot, so I put about 4 starter plants in a container. So far they are doing well, but no blooms yet. Matt also requested peppers for salsa, so again I put together a deck planter with jalapenos, and also a pepper named Fresno, with some cilantro for his salsa.
Fred Meyers has their annual Fuchsia Saturday the first Saturday in April each year. Spring isn't the same unless I attend their sale. They, in the past, sold fuchsia starts for 50 cents a piece, and they plant them for you for free with free Black Gold potting soil. This year they raised the price to 60 cents a piece. Still, I couldn't resist. I had them plant up about 4 hanging baskets for me (I recycle the baskets each year) Two of them in particular are doing very well, I have them pictured above. The other two are still green, with no blooms or significant growth "late bloomers" I suppose.
Another hold over from last year is a perennial of "a million bells", also pictured above. It's neat to see the progress it makes each year, the flowers bloom continuously and the growth trails down the container.
I have other favorites that I'll blog about as the season rolls on. Ta-Ta for now.
-Lori
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